Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-01

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IRON AND STEEL IN THE SOUTH.
1t is a big year for iron and steel !; and
1887 will see the largest production of these
metals in the United States, the largest i'm
portation and the largest consumption.
The demand for iron and steel has been so
great thatthe home furnaces could not sup
ply it and this has encouraged the build
ing of new ones, particularly in the South.
According to the report of the Iron n
Steel Association there are now being con-
structed tWenty-six new furnaces in the
South, two in Virginia, three in Tennes-
see, one in Kentucky and the remainder
in Alabama.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
| shows that the association overlooked four
new works. These do not include furnaces
recently built or now being erected to take
the place of old stacks, but only new en-
terprises. Sixteen of them will be COM
pleted to go into operation this year; the
others will be in a condition to begin work
early next spring. Among the projected
enterprises are twenty other furnaces, all
butthree in Alabama.
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coke iron and have an average capacity Of
100 tons daily. They will give a produc-
ton of $4,000 tons per day and add fully
/ 1000, 900 tons to the iron production of the
South for 1883 as compared with 1856.
Some idea is given of the impetus now
shown in iron making in the South by the
fact that of the forty-three new furnaces
being erected in the country, thirty are in
the South, and that Alabama is building
twenty-five to Pennsylvania five. Evil
IDENTIFY the iron industry is rapidly tending
toward the South.
When, however, we come to steel, we
find that of thirty-eight new mills but four
are in the South. 1t is plain that the
Southern mineral States, like Alabama and
Tennessee, should turn their attention in
this direction. If they can make iron
more cheaply and proftably than Penn
sylvania, there is no reason why they
should not do the same with steel. 1t is
not generally known that the United
States leads the world in steel production,
Britain in the iron output, it is ahead
in steel. The demand for rails and other
steel products is increasing, and the South
should not lose the opportunity offered it
here. 1t is opening the manufacture of
steel at Bessemer; it ought to push it for
ward until in this, as in pig iron, it be-
comes more than the rival of the most IA
vored portions of Pennsylvania.-Neav Or
leans Times Democrat.
THE SMITHs.-Mythology gives the
highest place in it's pantheon to Vulcan,
the god of fire. For Notwithstanding he
is represented as bearded, covered with
dust and SCOT, blowing the fires Of his
FORCES and surrounded by his chief minis
tiers, the Cylops, he is given Venus to wife
and made the father of Cupid. Among
the Scythians the iron sword was a god.
When Jerusalem was taken by the Bah
ylonians, they made captives of all the
Smiths and other craftsmen of the city
a more grievous act than the tribute
levied upon France by Germany at the
close of the wal in 1870. For to be depriv-
ed of the use of iron is to be relegated to
a state of barharism.
The vulgar accounted for the keenness
of the first sWord-blades on the score Of
magic, and the praises of the smiths who
forged were sung with the chiefs of chiv-
airy who welded them. So highly was
this mysterious power regarded by Tan
cred, the crusader, that in return for the
present of King Arthur's sword, Excali-
Der, by Richard /, he paid for it with four
great ships and fifteen galleys."
The smith was a mighty man in Eng
land in the early time. I'm the royal
court of Wales he sat with the King and
Queen and was entitled to a draught OF
every kind of liquor served" His person
was sacred; his calling placed him above
the law. He was necessary to the feudal
state; he forged swords "on the temper
of which life, honor and victory in battle
depended" The smith, after the Nor
mar invasion, gained in Importance in
England. He was the chief man of the
village and the most cunning workman OF
the time. His name descended to more
families than any other profession-for the
origin of the name Smith is the hot, dus-
ty, smoky smithy, and however it may
be disguised in the spelling, it is entitled
to the proud distinction which its repre-
sentatives sometimes seek to conceal.
TIE POSITION TAKEN DURING SLEEP.
A very large number OF adults form the
habit of sleeping in n particular posi-
ton, such as lying upon their right or left
side. A smaller number sleep upon the
back. Some persons sleep with the head
greatly extended; more often it is f1exed
considerably upon the trunk. Many must
have the head greatly elevated; others
can only sleep with the head very low.
Some observations made by DIR. G. Noso-
witch (Natsch) upon 235 soldiers showed
that 37.5 per cent. slept upon the right side,
% per cent. on the left, and G.5 per cent. on
the back. 1t has yet to be determined
whether any particular harm can come
from sleeping in a certain position which
the individual unconsciously assumes
Medical Record.
pB~ That virtue which requires to be
ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinef.